“REPUBLICAN MONARCHY” AND CONSTITUTIONAL ENGINEERING AT THE END OF THE CENTURY

U suvremenim ustavnim i politološkim raspravama već je dugo prisutna ideja republikanske monarhije kao oblika koji postaje zajednički nazivnik, kako predsjedničkih tako i parlamentarnih, ali i mješovitih sustava. Naime, suvremena demokratska država, neovisno o ustavnoj strukturi koja je podupire, sve očiglednije afirmira jedan svoj dio kojim predsjednički, parlamentarni i hibridni režimi sebi vraćaju efikasnost što su je izgubili potkraj tridesetih godina ovog stoljeća. U tom smislu izabrani monarh, odnosno republikanska monarhija karakterizira, kako stare tako i nove demokracije. U tekstu autor iznosi razloge pojave republikanske monarhije, njezine oblike, apologiju, kritiku i nadogradnju.Contemporary constitutional and political debates have for quite some time toyed with the concept of republican monarchy as a model which is becoming the common denominator of both presidential and parliamentary as well as mixed systems. Namely, the contemporary democratic state, regardless of its constitutional structure underlying it, has been asserting one of its aspects by which presidential, parliamentary and hybrid regimes have been regaining the efficacy they forfeited in late 1930s. In that respect, elected monarchs, i.e. republican monarchies are characteristic for old as well as new democracies. In the text, the author gives the reasons for the emergence of republican monarchy, its forms, advantages, disadvantages, and offshoots